Detroit's Broken Buses Vex a Broke City

Bankruptcy Means Cold Waits, Hot Tempers for Residents in Need of a Ride

DETROIT—For legions of carless in the Motor City, the buses are running on fumes.

When the Number 53 along one of the city's busiest thoroughfares wheezily pulled into a crowded stop on a bitterly cold afternoon recently, a gray-haired woman in a pink knit cap immediately lodged a complaint.